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Download full textVacca, Richard T.; Gove, Mary K. – 1984
This study addressed the question of why, to what extent, and under what conditions teachers fully implement and adapt instructional innovations. The subjects, a group of 24 ninth grade content area teachers, were seen to have implemented a particular set of reading innovations only to a limited degree. Five major themes were revealed as having an…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Content Area Reading, Curriculum Development, Educational Innovation
Loucks, Susan F. – 1983
This guidebook identifies the tasks in disseminating new programs and provides profiles for judging their progress. The process of presenting a program to new users is divided into seven tasks: creating awareness of the project, establishing commitment among the users, providing materials, training personnel, planning to meet users' individual…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Demonstration Programs, Diffusion (Communication), Early Childhood Education
Rutherford, William L. – 1978
Focusing on the use of the interview in the Procedures for Adopting Educational Innovations (PAEI) Project, this paper reports on the appropriateness of the interview as a research tool in change research and the types of information appropriate to its use. In this project, interviews are used to identify what an individual is doing, has done, or…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Data Collection, Elementary Secondary Education, Interviews
Schaafsma, Hank – Vocational Aspect of Education, 1995
A participatory action research (PAR) project used elements of the levels of use (LoU) of the innovation model to monitor the effects of on-the-job training in a telephone repair service. LoU interviews demonstrated validity, but the PAR method did not fulfill its emancipatory potential for change. Although participants critiqued the instruments…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adoption (Ideas), Foreign Countries, Job Training
Hall, Gene E. – 1978
A key assumption of the Concerns Based Adoption Model (CBAM) is that change is a process, rather than an event. The Procedures for Adopting Educational Innovations Project is working to identify and verify diagnostic dimensions of CBAM, and to develop tools to measure the developmental status of users and non-users; these concepts will help change…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Change Agents, Change Strategies, Educational Change
Hord, Shirley M. – 1981
The Concerns-Based Adoption Model (CBAM) offers an approach to the study of change by focusing on the needs of individuals and describing their growth over time. Seven Stages of Concern (SoC) have been identified that occur as a teacher adopts an innovation: (1) little concern about or involvement with the innovation; (2) interest in learning more…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Attitude Change, Attitude Measures, Educational Change
Okpalobi, Martis J. – 1979
High school teachers of reading, mathematics, social science, and science participated in a faculty development program, Teaching Reading in Content Areas (TRICA). A focused interview system, Levels of Use of Innovation (LOU) measured the extent to which teachers used TRICA in their classrooms. There are eight levels of use: non-use, orientation,…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Check Lists, Content Area Reading, Evaluation Criteria
